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          Prayer: God of healing power
        
      
            
        
        
          
  Prayer: God of healing power
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God of healing power God of healing power we come to pray for those who have a special need for your care. We pray for those whose brains have been physically damaged, often from birth, and for those who suffer from some form of dementia. We pray for those whose learning
          
          
        
          Poem:Quarrelling about words
        
      
            
        
        
          
  Poem:Quarrelling about words
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/meditation/reflection: Quarrelling about words If we believe in God and in what Jesus did and said and how he lived and died and how that same Spirit that was in Jesus is still with us in our world today, then we have the essence of our faith and all the truth that we need t
          
          
        
          We cling to things we know we should not own
        
      
            
        
        
          
  We cling to things we know we should not own
by Marjorie Dobson
We cling to things we know we should not own and tempt ourselves with thoughts we should avoid. Our actions often contradict our words and our behaviour merges with the crowd. Our human instincts countermand our faith and drown the whisper of the Spirit’s breath. Verse 2 follows
          
          
        
          HYMN:The silent witness of the heavens
        
      
            
        
        
          
  HYMN:The silent witness of the heavens
by Janet Pybon
Hymn inspired by Psalm 19 'The heavens declare the glory of the Lord'. It begins by praising the variety of God's creation, goes on to confess our part in damaging the environment and ends with a call to stewardship. The silent witness of the heavens tells of the glory of the Lor
          
          
        
          Prayer: God, who understands us
        
      
            
        
        
          
  Prayer: God, who understands us
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: God, who understands us God, who understands us as we are, please forgive the foolishness of our behaviour and the wilfulness of our ways. We excuse ourselves by saying we are only human – and we are – but just as our children learn many of their behaviour patterns from u
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